2023: The European Year of Skills!
Picture: Claudio Centonze 2023 is the European Year of Skills! When Sweden initiates its presidency in the European Council a new European Year also starts. For some years the EU decides on a theme that, among other things, is supposed to stimulate debates about and make the public as well as governments pay attention to a certain issue. The theme for next year is the education and upskilling of youths and adults to decrease unemployment and increase levels of competence [...]
Creative Waves closing event – Talk to empower – Presentations
The project “Creative Waves – Baltic Sisterhood for Change”, a cooperation between Intercult from Sweden, Euroregion Baltic and Baltic Sea Cultural Centre from Poland, Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre (ENUT), and activists from Kaliningrad Oblast, has come to an end. With this project, we empowered women in the Baltic Sea Region by meeting traditional crafts, local traditions and customs etc. with the digital modern world and its demands for change. The project final powerful event was in Gdansk, [...]
Youth Hub: New webpage for youths and educators
Picture: Dati Bendo The new webpage of the European Parliament has opened! With the focus on youths and their ambitions and possibilities you can now find information about events, how you can participate in the political debate and where you can make new connections on the Youth Hub. Here are also times and locations for meetings and similar, how you can apply for funding for your projects and guidance to job opportunity and internships. For educators that work with youths [...]
Play Together We Are EUrope!
Play the fun game TogetherWeAreEUrope! The game will test your knowledge in four EU subjects: History of the European Union Together we are Europe The EU in the world Bringing hope to the future How much do you and your friends know about the EU? Challenge each other and play together by clicking HERE!
TALKS TO EMPOWER – – STRONG, VISIONARY, ACTIVIST WOMEN & CRAFTS
Date: 25-27 September 2022 Place: Online and physical at The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gda?sk, Poland The final part of our international project "Creative Waves – Baltic Sisterhood for Change" will gather international experts that will discuss about female entrepreneurship and the importance of building supportive environments. The focus will be on practical aspects of turning passion into profession and consider how to use sisterhood, empathy and solidarity to strengthen society. Traditionally female activities (e.g. embroidery, jewellery making, [...]
Film4Energy – see the winning short film!
The European Union's Film4Energy competition, which started last autumn, received contributions from as many as 90 schools in 16 EU countries! The entries submitted, by students between the ages of 12 and 15, are short films that demonstrate the benefits of saving energy and using energy-efficient options for heating, cooling, transportation and other everyday activities. The films show that young students know a lot about energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources. They have the power to inspire [...]
Meet the Scottish team – Bridging Digital
Dr Elizabeth Gardiner (Liz Gardiner) Trading as Cultural Planning Practice, Liz Gardiner is an artist, teacher, academic and free-lance consultant specialising in cultural planning. As a director of Fablevision, she develops and delivers case study examples of cultural planning in practice – often in partnership with other third sector organisations, community development trusts or local authorities. Liz is founder member, and a Director of Fablevision, which has been working to develop cultural planning approaches in various policy agendas for the last four decades. Instrumental in [...]
Meet the Greek artists and learners!
In our Erasmus+ project Bridging Digital, the participants from Hellenic Adult Association were artists and learners at the same time. Vangelis Kalambakas is a film director, producer and cinematographer. His filmography includes both fiction and documentary works, many of which have earned prestigious awards in international festivals and have been broadcast in several countries. He is also a teacher of Film and Audiovisual Media, having served as a faculty member at the Film Department of the Aristotle University of [...]
What happens when musicians and librarians cross-collaborate using animations?
You can now watch our webinar "What happens when musicians and librarians ross-collaborate using animations?"! Karina Rojek, coordinator of City Culture Institute (Instytut Kultury Miejskiej) in Gdansk is talking with Helen Riise and Josefin Holmström about how librarians popularized reading by using podcasts and how cultural workers can use different digital tools and platforms to develop their business and creation. This webinar is part of a methodology webinar series from Intercult, that will show you examples, with invited cultural experts [...]